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Photo	Name / Spouse	Father / Mother	Notes
	Adam Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	served under Washington
	Agatha Lauffer b.1679	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: Maria Schuler
	Agathe Lauffer b.1654 d.1719	Father: Christian Lauffer Mother: Anna Schlenker
	Agnes Lauffer b.1635	Father: Mother:
	Andreas Lauffer b.1659 d.1734	Father: Christian Lauffer Mother: Anna Schlenker
	Anna Maria Lauffer b.1615 d.1675	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother: Anna Maria Kaempf
	Anna Maria Lauffer b.1708 JUL 29 d.1803 APR 24	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: Maria Schuler
	Bartol Lauffer Spouse: Mary Angle Drumm	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Bartol had built the first brick house Bartol also had daughters, and a son Henry. The latter moved to Tuscarora, near Philadelphia. The source of our information is this: In the fall of 1824 John Lauffer, Jr., of Harrison City, the centenarian, and Frederick Steck, the father of Daniel Steck, a former sheriff of Westmoreland Co., went afoot to Philadelphia with a drove of 170 cattle that were purchased in the Manor Valley at from $10 to $12 per head. It took five weeks to make the trip. John Lauffer, Jr., on this trip visited Henry, the son of Bartol, and saw his sons and daughters. His descendants no doubt are extant somewhere, and it is sincerely hoped that their family records have been kept carefully, and may some day be annexed to ours. We do not know the year Bartol left Greensburg to go into Ohio, but the venerable John Lauffer tells us, he went with the great stream of migration of 1812. As proprietor of the saw mill and grist mill, and hotel property, besides his real estate dealings, Bartol lived a very busy and useful life in Greensburg. His son Peter was a steam boat pilot, and was blown up in an explosion on the Ohio River shortly after the War of 1812. Another son of Barthol was Judge in Canton Co., Ohio. Simon Lauffer, of Irwin, met Rev. P. A. Lauffer, of Meadville, and tells us he is a grandson of Bartol, and served for some years as President of Allegheny College. Dr. Cornelius C. Laffer, of Meadville, is of the Bartol Laffer family, and a son of P. A. Laffer. Philip A. Laffer was born Sept. 30, 1837, (died Dec. 4, 1884), married July 24, 1862 to Ellen Weir Callender by Rev. Samuel N. Callender. Address Meadville, Pa. Five children. (I) Norma Callender Laffer born Nov. 16, I863. Died Aug. 1, 1864. Interred at Meadville, Pa. (2) Philip Ernest Laffer From wills of Northampton Co., the will of Philip Drumm, yoeman, of Moore Twp., probated Nov, 22, 1788, we learn that his daughter, Mary Angle, was the wife of Bartol Lawfer. Also that Simon, husband of Susanna Laffer, was the son of this Philip Drumm. Father Drumm lies buried near the stump of a big chestnut tree along the fence to the right of Old Stone Church, three miles north of Seigfrieds, Pa.
	Catherina Lauffer b.1778 d.1847	Father: Peter Johan Lauffer Sr Mother:	RootsWeb has a listing for a Catherina Lauffer who died in 1847. She is also listed as being married to Heiny Balthaser. But the settlement papers in the will of Michael Esh, Junior, in 1812 are filed in a claim in 1819 by a Balthasar Heiny on behalf of his LATE wife Catherine, since she was the widow of Michael Esch, Jr. There is little doubt in my mind that this Catherine is the same Catherina Lauffer mentioned in Michael Esh, Jrs will, and whoever made the listing on RootsWeb must have had the date of her death incorrect (BUT SEE UPDATE BELOW), as well as switching around her second husbands name. On April 28, 2004, I went to the cemetery of Christ UCC (Little Moore or Dieters Church Cemetery]. There I found the adjoining tombstones of a Catherina Heiny and Balthazar Heiny. I am still in the process of translating the German inscriptions on these grave markers. So far, I have the following: Catherina Heiny Born Lawfer July 26, 1778 Verheiran Esch im Year 1813 with Bal thazar Heiny Lebii in the Obe 29 years 10 months and 10 days zongium Hinden et al. died May 28th 1847 old 68 years 10 months 2 days.
	Catherine Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Catharine, wife of Jacob Christman. She lived near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co., all her life time. She left a large family, the record of which has not as yet been secured.
	Christian Lauffer b.1618 d.1678 SEP 22 Spouse: Anna Schlenker	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother: Anna Maria Kaempf
	Christian Lauffer b.1632	Father: Jakob Bueblin Lauffer Mother: Anna Rayserin Kaiser
	Christian Lauffer b.1653 d.1675	Father: Christian Lauffer Mother: Anna Schlenker
	Christian Lauffer b.1679	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: Maria Schuler
	Christian Sr. Lauffer "THE PIONEER" DAR #A067003 b.1723 MAY 17 d.1796 JUN Spouse: Susanah Catharina Best	Father: Johan Henrich Lauffer Mother: Anna Catherina	Christian and family arrived in Philadelphia on-board the Pennsylvania Merchant on September 10, 1731. The ship departed from Rotterdam with Captain John Stedman and traveled via Dover. There were 57 Palatines with a 175 total number of men women and children. The ships manifest shows Christian at age 8 with his stepfather Bartel, his mother, age 35, and his brother Laurence. Also traveling with them was his mothers sister, Maria Fronica, age 33, her husband Hans Michael Horiacher, and their daughter Maria, under 16 Christian was naturalized in fall of 1765 in Lehi Twp., Northampton Co., PA. He is buried in the old Bash Cemetery, near Pleasant Unity, but no tombstone marks his grave.
	Christian Jr Lauffer b.1770 Spouse: ? Hooker	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Christian Laffer, son of Christian, the Pioneer, married a Miss Hooker while living in Pennsylvania. Tc them three sons and two daughters were born, of whom: three lived to advanced age: By a secollld marriage he was united with Elizabeth Teegarden (died Feb. 21, 1826, aged 38 years, u mo11ths and 5 days). With the Teeg:ardens he went to Madison Twp., Pickaway Co., O. To them were li>orn seven children.
	Christian Christopher Lauffer b.1778	Father: Bartol Lauffer Mother: Mary Angle Drumm
	Christian Gottlieb Lauffer b.1763 - 1823 Spouse: Anna Barbara Barrho	Father: Mother:
	Elizabeth Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Elizabeth, married to Frederick Rice. They resided near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co., and later removed to Ohio. Grandmother Waugaman never saw this aunt; Elizabeth died many years before her husband.
	Georg Lauffer b.1668 DEC 09 d.1742 DEC 06 Spouse: Anna Wirtner Spouse 2: Maria Schuler	Father: Jakob Bueblin Lauffer Mother: Anna Rayserin Kaiser
	Georg Lauffer b.1668 MAY 05 d.1743 AUG 26 Spouse: NN	Father: Christian Lauffer Mother: Anna Schlenker
	Georg Lauffer b.1679	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: Maria Schuler
	Hannah Lauffer	Father: Henry Lauffer Mother:
	Hans Lauffer b.1523 d.1547 Spouse: Apollonia	Father: Mother:	History: Hans Lauffer was named as a judge in the â€œRenewal of the Schwenningen Estatesâ€ in 1528. Another mention as a judge can be found in 1532 when the property of the St. Clara Monastery in Villingen was reopened (HÃ¤user HÃ¶fe HofstÃ¤tten page 22 and sources on the history of Schwenningen from 890 to 1600, page 183). In 1541, a list of the "beneficial usage and incomenns of annual Haler zinns" was made. Hans Lauffer was mentioned as follows: "Ain another widumb well, so does the beneficiary who belongs to it, and endures. Item Hanns Lauffer bawt the called widumb and horny JÃ¤rlichs of it Vesenn 2 mtr. 8 f. Habern 2 mtr. 8f." (- no house -) Source: Houses HÃ¶fe HofstÃ¤tten page 32 Apollonia LÃ¤ufferin, Hans Lauffers widow, is listed in the list of "fiefdoms in Schwenningen" from 1547. Therefore Hans Lauffer must have died before 1547. In 1547, however, another Hans Lauffer was named as the field owner (sources for Schwenningen history, page 217).
	Hans Lauffer b.1560 d.1611 Spouse: Agatha	Father: Jakob Lauffer Mother: Euphrosyne von Freyburg
	Hans Lauffer b.1584 d.1658 JAN 02 Spouse: Anna Maria Kaempf	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother: Agatha
	Hanss Lauffer b.1630	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother: Anna Maria Kaempf
	Henry Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Henry is enrolled among the "Rangers of the Frontiers" 1778-1783 for Westmore~ )and County There was a warm friendship between :Henry Lauffer, Jr., and Simon Drumm, "they called each other cousin," "my father was always very fond of his Lauffer relatives.\ "Sams fathetÂ· and my father were very intimate," the General asserts. He thinks Col. Christopher Truby ( elsewhere mentioned) was related to the Drumms and the Lauffers, for the daughter of Christopher Truby used to call his father "Cot.sin Simon." As to the source of our people he knows we are from the Palatine, a country beautiful beyond anythin1~: when General Tourans was sent into it, its devastation was so complete that irt delivering his report to the French monarch hi! could truthfully say: "Sire I have not kft a stick standing as b :g as that finger." The people homeless, in destitution, came into the province of P<>nnsylvania, to find civil and religious libe:iy, and a chance to live.
	Henry Lauffer b.1781	Father: Bartol Lauffer Mother: Mary Angle Drumm
	Henry Gottlieb Lauffer "Runner" b.1738 d.1784 Jul 14 Spouse: Charity Charlotte Fortney	Father: Johannes Michael Lauffer RUNNER Mother: Anna Marie Elisabeth Wertz
	Jakob Lauffer b.1546 Spouse: Euphrosyne von Freyburg	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother: Apollonia
	Jakob Lauffer b.1679	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: Maria Schuler
	Jakob Lauffer 11 weeks old b.1694 d.1694	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: NN
	Jakob Bueblin Lauffer b.1622 d.1674 SEP 25 Spouse: Anna Rayserin Kaiser	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother:
	Johan Henrich Lauffer b.1683 d.1730 Spouse: Anna Catherina	Father: Joseph Lauffer Mother:
	Johannes Lauffer b.1792	Father: Bartol Lauffer Mother: Mary Angle Drumm
	Johannes Michael Lauffer "RUNNER" came to America in 1753 b.1705 d.1793 Spouse: Anna Marie Elisabeth Wertz	Father: Mother:	Place of Burial:Gods Acre Cemetery, Frederick, Maryland Came to America on the Ship Neptune with his son Michael Laufer. Ported in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 24, 1751. Noted in the ships log that he signed his name with an X. Name shown as J. Michael (X) Laufer. Source: Immigrants to Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1727-1776 Husband of Maria Elisabeth Virtz. Michael Runner, buried October 24, 1804, born 1732. Father, Michael Runner, mother Anne Mary. Married 1756, Elisah. Wurtzen, has 5 sons and 6 daughters of whom 4 sons and two daughters live. Became sick with fever and died October 23, age 72 years Johannes Lauffer, imported in Ship Edinburgh, Capt. James Russell, from Rotterdam, last from Portsmouth, England. Qualified Sept. 14, 1753.
	John Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best
	John Lauffer b.1826 d.1882 May 25	Father: Christian Gottlieb Lauffer Mother: Anna Barbara Barrho
	John Adam Lauffer b.1753 d.1814	Father: Bartol Lauffer Mother: Mary Angle Drumm
	Joseph Lauffer b.1660 d.1713	Father: Mother:
	Ludewig Lauffer Spouse: Catharina Elizabeth Schotten	Father: Mother:
	Magdelenna Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Magdalenna, the youngest, married to John Bash. They lived along the Kiskiminetas River, on the tract of land that Adam Laffer purchased, then sold to his father, Christian. See Land Transfers, vol. 8, p, 526, office of Recorder of Deeds, Westmoreland County, Pa.
	Margaretha Lauffer	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother: Anna Maria Kaempf
	Maria Elizabeth Lauffer "changed name to Runner" b.1769 Aug 16 d.1844 Sep 03	Father: Mother:	Conrad Show Showe Schauss, b. 1764, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 1850, Blanchard, Hardin, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
	Mary Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Mary Laffer, married to Wentzell, of Millersdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa., where some of her grandchildren still reside.
	Michael Lauffer b.1679	Father: Georg Lauffer Mother: Maria Schuler
	Peter Lauffer b.1784 d.1855	Father: Peter Johan Lauffer Sr Mother:
	Peter Lauffer b.1797 d.1816	Father: Bartol Lauffer Mother: Mary Angle Drumm	Peter was a steam boat pilot, and was blown up in an explosion on the Oh: o River shortly after the War of 1812.
	Peter Johan Sr Lauffer Made shoes for Washingtons army Spouse: Magdalena Susanna Grosher	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Grandmother Scholl tells us that her father (Peter Laufer Jr.) and grandfather (Peter Laufer, the shoemaker,) were not large men but squarely built, solid men weighing about 160 and 170 pounds. She remembers how her grandfather wound up the clock every morning when he got up, before coming to breakfast. One morning he was late in coming to breakfast. His son went to see why he did not come. He found him unable to talk, lying in bed. He motioned to his son to go to wind the clock. He laid sick in bed for a week. It was harvest time. And as he lay sick in bed, his granddaughter (Grandmother Scholl) with a fly brush made of paper, kept the flies from him, and gave him drinks. The men and women were all at work in the harvest fields. She thinks she was about eight years old when she thus cared for her grandfather. She remembers her grandfathers shoemaker bench. She was around when he made shoes. She would meddle with his tools, and she recalls his telling her to let things alone. Grandmother Scholl remembers that the father of her grandfather was Christian Laufer. And she as well as Nathan of Broadheadsville, and Jacob P. Laufer of the Old Homestead, have it by tradition that Father Christian and his sons and daughters went westward to near Pittsburg, and that Peter remained East. Kleppingers Fort was located near Petersville Church, east from the Laufer Homestead. Families went to this or other nearby forts every night, for in those days people were stolen by the Indians and houses were burned. Grandmother Scholl remembers the spinning, turning the spinning wheel or reel a whole day, when you would like to sled ride, or go fishing, was an evil of the olden day. The Laufers sent their yarn to the weavers and their cloth to the fullers. In fulling the cloth, she recalls that soap was used. The cloth was then colored brown. When thus dyed it made fine cloth for dresses. Her father was very fond of bees, of which he had about seventy. He wove basket hives out of straw for them. Deiter, his neighbor, had eighty. Both tried to reach one hundred. It was said in those days that a person could not have one hundred bees together. As their number increased, they commenced going back, neither reached one hundred. In those days cane sugar was not used by the settlers, and beet sugar had not been introduced. For sweet, they were dependent upon honey, which was used freely for all purposes. They rendered their honey in a big iron kettle. They made it hot and strained it out through a colander. The honey thus rendered was set aside in crocks. The part that did not go through the colander was returned to the kettle. Water was added and it was boiled. It was again put through the colander. The filtrate was put in a keg or barrel and set aside to ferment. The part that remained in the colander this second time, was returned to the kettle and purified as wax. They had a way of gathering the wax as follows: as the water boiled the wax came to the surface; the hands were made wet in cold water and placed on the surface of the water, which caused the wax to adhere to the fingers. It was then rubbed off the hands and the hands again dipped in cold water. The filtrate in the keg would ripen in a years time. It made a drink much relished by her father and grand father, says Grandmother Scholl. In her words it was sehr stark. The German name for this drink is Meticulum.
	Phillip Lauffer b.1795 d.1871	Father: Bartol Lauffer Mother: Mary Angle Drumm
	Rosona Lauffer "Rose" b.1824 Oct 23 d.1896 Feb 04 Spouse: Nicholas Kilian Seng Spouse 2: Mary Miller	Father: Mother:
	Suzanna Lauffer	Father: Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER Mother: Susanah Catharina Best	Susanna, whose husbands name was Simon Drumm, farmer, and proprietor of one of Greensburgs first hotels. She lived with her children after her husbands death especially with Simon, the Greensburg merchant. Gen. Richard Drumm, of Washington, D. C., retired army officer, now in his eighties, is a son of Simon Drumm, Jr., and grandson of Susanna Laffer. Grandmother Waugaman recalls a visit Simon Drumm and his son, Simon, made (about 1840) to her fathers, John Laffer, Sr.
	Ursula Lauffer b.1656 d.1676	Father: Christian Lauffer Mother: Anna Schlenker
	Werner Lauffer b.1590 d.1670	Father: Hans Lauffer Mother:

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